CVE-2018-5115 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded foreground page. Although the prompt contains the real domain making the request, this can result in user confusion about the originating site of the authentication request and may cause users to mistakenly send private credential information to a third party site. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-39x9-phxc-qvqw: If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded fore↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2018-5115: If an HTTP authentication prompt is triggered by a background network request from a page or extension, it is displayed over the currently loaded fore↗2018-01-23